Page 80 - BBC Wildlife Volume 36 #05

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BELOW Besides eiders and people, otters RIGHT Eiders are very fast flyers, capable
are also attracted to the rich waters of of reaching speeds of about 80kph in level
Straumen. Although the mustelids don’t flight, and can migrate long distances in
attack the seaducks, the birds are disturbed autumn and winter. This male is coming
should they swim nearby. When eiders feel in to land on still water. The unusual
alarmed, they gather into a dense, floating ‘from-above’ angle of the photograph was
flock, and if the threat persists or grows, possible thanks to a bridge crossing the
they’ll take of en masse. body of water the bird was approaching.

80 BBC Wildlife Spring 2018